Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest bit of distance shooting in modern times," marveled N.A.A. President Clayton B. Shenk. "Nothing to my knowledge has approached it since the 16th century, when the Turks were claiming distances approaching...
...baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed to breathe. "What could be more interesting," he demanded, "than a human face?" Epstein's female portraits were often busts in undress...
...First Time (Corona; MGM) presents outsize Tenor Mario ("My voice is the greatest in the world") Lanza as an "unpredictable, erratic, self-centered" American singer who is chased by an overdressed, "publicity-loving" international party girl (Zsa Zsa Gabor). The casting is pluperfect, but most of the picture is a pretentious bore. The pre recorded songs seem unable to locate Lanza's lips, and some of the arias might even have been scraped off old Lanza sound tracks. The only new number, a "Jamaican rock 'n' roll" item called Pineapple Pickers, summons little of the old Mario...
...published books outlining his theories and claims of benefit to patients, he offers no precise statistics such as most medical men demand as proof that a treatment works. Although technically in good standing in organized Swiss medicine, he is viewed with suspicion by most Swiss physicians. His greatest following is in Germany, where a connection with the University of Tubingen enables him to use the coveted title "professor...
...this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world's largest variety-store chain (3,290 stores). The company is now adding new stores on the average of one every three working days, the greatest expansion program of its history...